Sunday, June 04, 2017

As Official As Official Can Be

I received the transcripts I ordered. I'm a master!

Because our seniors have already graduated, I have a few periods without students tomorrow. I'll probably head down to the district office, paperwork in hand, and sit at someone's desk to ensure all of this is recorded properly so that I can get a pay raise next year! Took me 5 years to get the degree, should take me 3 years to recoup that cost--so after 8 years I'll have broken even.

I *am* a better math teacher. I know more, can see where more of the math I teach leads--and after taking 3 probability and/or statistics courses, I'm a much better statistics teacher.

I wouldn't have sunk the money into this program unless there was a pay raise attached, so in that way the money made me a better teacher. I also changed the way I conduct assessments because of a testing/assessment course I had. There are a couple of small things some of my instructors did that I've decided to adopt as a teacher. So that's how my teaching has been affected.